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No shortage of work

Aug 20th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: Opinion

The key to understanding why we have to recruit unskilled overseas workers from thousands of kilometres away when Australians, including a disproportionate number of indigenous people, are out of work lies in the perverse effects of our welfare system. Unemployed Australians have little to gain from swapping welfare for casual, unskilled pay rates.